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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A salt desert of north-central Iran southeast of the Elburz Mountains.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a salt desert in north central Iran

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Examples

  • The area can be divided into two major units: the Dasht-e-Kavir in the north, a vast saline desert, and the Dasht-e-Lut in the south, largely a sand and gravel desert and one of the hottest deserts in the world.

    Central Persian desert basins 2008

  • Their rendezvous was a flat, empty spot in the Dasht-e-Kavir salt desert, fifty-eight miles from Tabas, the nearest town.

    The Desert One Debacle 2006

  • Their rendezvous was a flat, empty spot in the Dasht-e-Kavir salt desert, fifty-eight miles from Tabas, the nearest town.

    The Desert One Debacle 2006

  • In the unlikely event that the Head of Security, Crazedmaniac, doesnt weed out perverts such as this from "Der Stadt", I suggest a reeducation camp in the Dasht-e-Kavir desert of Iran and allow Shira law to be used in conjunction with no jeuvos attached.

    unknown title 2009

  • In the unlikely event that the Head of Security, Crazedmaniac, doesnt weed out perverts such as this from "Der Stadt", I suggest a reeducation camp in the Dasht-e-Kavir desert of Iran and allow Shira law to be used in conjunction with no jeuvos attached.

    unknown title 2009

  • Only about 60 Asiatic cheetahs survive, all of them to the south of the Kopet Dagh in Iran’s Great Salt Desert, the Dasht-e-Kavir.

    Biological diversity in the Irano-Anatolian 2008

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